Private Prison Companies Are About to Cash In on Trump’s Deportation Regime
Mother Jones Illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In October, when executives from the country’s biggest prison company held their annual leadership conference at a golf resort owned by President Donald Trump, they had much to celebrate: lucrative contracts, strong stock prices, and a good shot at expanding their reach…
A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…
States Are Going to Extraordinary Lengths to Keep Death Penalty Drugs Top Secret
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One August afternoon, Wendy Kelley, the director of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, picked up 40 vials of a controversial sedative used in prisons across the country to put inmates to death. The details of where she picked the vials up, and who…
Inmates Are Using Masturbation as a Weapon. Female Guards Have Had Enough.
Mother Jones illustration.fatihhoca/Getty A pair of class-action lawsuits filed last week against the sheriff’s office in Cook County, Illinois, allege that the office has failed to protect female workers and female public defenders against frequent and egregious sexual harassment—by male inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Inaction by Sheriff Thomas Dart has left…
“We Didn’t Have to Suffer Like That”: Inside a Texas Prison During Hurricane Harvey
Mother Jones Illustration; Bruno Monteny/Getty; kodda/Getty In late August, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the southeast Texas coast bringing with it extreme winds and dropping more than four feet of rain across Houston and the surrounding area. The catastrophic flooding caused thousands to evacuate, including many state prisoners who were moved to drier and safer facilities elsewhere…
28 Doctors Say This Man Is Mentally Ill. Arkansas Is Going to Execute Him Anyway.
Jack Greene appears before the state parole board in October.Kelly P. Kissel/KTHV-TV/AP Jack Greene is set to be the first man executed in Arkansas since April, when Arkansas executed four inmates in an eight-day span. Even though Greene suffers from a severe mental illness, his execution for the 1991 murder of Sidney Burnett is scheduled for November 9. Scott Braden, one of…